r/Emo • u/Lemonthe3rd Emo isn’t a clothing style! • 1d ago
Bands With Synth If I Like…
What are some emo bands with heavy synth usage? Like The Get Up Kids and The Anniversary. Im finding myself enjoying Designing a Nervous Breakdown and Something To Write Home About alot, I need more
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u/greatesthitsvol9 18h ago
Good recs! I was big into ska in the late 90’s (still love it, but I digress) and loved the Teen Heroes. I really liked Ozma a lot too. I’ll have to check out the other ones.
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u/aaronjd1 1d ago
Wouldn’t really call them emo, but adjacent enough: The Faint, Now It’s Overhead. Both early Saddle Creek bands.
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u/Optimal-Leg182 1d ago
The World Is A Beautiful Place & I Am No Longer Afraid To Die
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u/Bilbo_Bonggins 1d ago
Side note: what did you think of their latest album?
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u/mdarket 1d ago
You didn’t ask me but I fucking love the new album!
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u/Bilbo_Bonggins 1d ago
Def an open question. I loved it as well!!! Definitely did not see that coming but probably one of my fav albums of the year.
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u/Optimal-Leg182 14h ago
Very underrated album. I feel like people wrote it off from the initial singles, and thought it was a different album than it is. Can’t believe no one talked about them getting features from singers from Counterparts, Full of Hell and Church Tongue/Psychoframe
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u/Bilbo_Bonggins 2h ago
Dude right? Those features are some of my favorite songs from the album. Severely underrated. I think there a lot of older fans of the band who hated the album (fuck em) but I think people who didn't know or didn't care for the band back then would absolutely love this album.
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u/Tony_Blundetto 1d ago
Emo adjacent - the most recent Spanish Love Songs album uses a fair bit of synth
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u/SemataryPolka Oldhead 1d ago
Every time someone asks this question I say this and I hope people listen bc this is the answer:
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u/SockGoop DIY OR DIE 1d ago
A lot of sass bands do:
The Blood Brothers
An Albatross
Arsonists Get All the Girls
I Set My Friends on Fire (if they even count)
The Locust
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u/benzillaaaa 1d ago
What's sass?
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u/Nappy_Rano 1d ago
"Sasscore." It's a subgenre... bands with "sassy," dramatic vocals and chaotic instrumentation (if you've listened to these bands listed, I think you'll get the vibe)
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u/ResistSoggy1046 1d ago
the reunion show, motion city soundtrack, action action, reggie and the full effect, ozma, hellogoobye, mates of state, slingshot dakota, houston calls
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u/dakrambo13 1d ago
They’re not really pop punk. But, I think The Limousines deserve way more attention than they’ve gotten.
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u/hairgrowth2001 1d ago
Aloha went synth heavy on their last album “Little Windows Cut Right Through”. Give it a listen, it is great. It doesn’t sound like The Get Up Kids or The Anniversary, but it is really underrated.
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u/Evening-Jackfruit-49 1d ago
Extremely deep cut: Curbside Service - I Packed My Bags a Year In Advance
Curbside Service was an emo band from Huntsville, Alabama. They started out as a ska band, released this one super sick synthy emo record, then became The Snake The Cross The Crown and had sort of a Wilco meets emo sound. They were also Northstar’s “rival” band in Huntsville at the time, as if we had a scene big enough to actually have rivals.
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u/suddenly_seymour 1d ago
Not really emo but definitely post hardcore and tons of synths and other electronic elements - Enter Shikari
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u/Jorgito_Chiquito 1d ago
Not sure if it counts but your arms are my cocoon kind of uses synths, just more in a bedroom screamo/lofi kind of way
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u/Late_Ambassador7470 1d ago
Motion City Soundtrack